Emma Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Cardiology describes research in cardiology

A new study, 'Echocardiographic evaluation of fetal cardiac function: clinical and anatomical correlations in two cases of endocardial fibroelastosis,' is now available. According to a study from Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Two fetuses with endocardial fibroelastosis, one with critical aortic stenosis and one with high-output cardiac failure due to chorioangiomatosis, are presented to evaluate the correlation between Doppler echocardiographic findings, the fetal clinical condition and the anatomical substrate found at postmortem. Doppler measurements of cardiac function (systolic, diastolic and global) and a cardiovascular score incorporating five parameters of fetal well-being were...

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